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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaMyriapodaDiplopodaChordeumatidaCleidogonidaePseudotremia

Holliday's Cave Milliped
Pseudotremia hollidayi Lewis, 2005

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Myriapoda
Class Diplopoda
Order Chordeumatida
Family Cleidogonidae
Genus Pseudotremia
Species Pseudotremia hollidayi Lewis, 2005

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Keyhole Cave, Sequatchie Co. TN

Range

Known from one county in Tennessee in the Interior Low Plateau karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Tennessee

Counties

Tennessee
Sequatchie

Karst regions

Interior Low Plateau

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G1 Critically Imperiled

G1▲G2G3G4G5

Global rank last reviewed 30 June 2005.

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S1 Critically Imperiled

Ranks looked up 23 August 2026. Conservation status changes, and a rank here is as current as that date and no more.

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
4PDY8
GBIF
6187496
iNaturalist
229199

References

  • Lewis, J.J. 2005b. Six new species of Pseudotremia from caves of the Tennessee Cumberland Plateau (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae). Zootaxa 1080: 17–31. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1080.1.2
  • Lewis, J.J. 2009b. Eight new cavernicolous species of the milliped genus Pseudotremia (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Cleidogonidae). In: Roble, S.M. & Mithcell, J.C. (eds), A Lifetime of Contributions to Myriapodology and the Natural History of Virginia: A Festschrift in Honor of Richard L. Hoffman’s 80th Birthday. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication No. 16, pp. 171–186. Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia, USA.
  • Niemiller, M.L. & Zigler, K.S. 2013. Patterns of cave biodiversity and endemism in the Appalachians and Interior Plateau of Tennessee, USA. PLOS One 8: e64177. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0064177

This account was last revised 28 August 2026. Conservation ranks were looked up 23 August 2026.

How to cite this account

Pseudotremia hollidayi Lewis, 2005. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0510. https://cavebiology.org/species/pseudotremia-hollidayi/ (accessed 18 October 2026).
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